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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.






2. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.






3. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.






4. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.






5. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.






6. A strong pause within a line.






7. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.






8. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






9. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.






10. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.






11. A figure of speech in which two things are compared using 'like' or 'as'.






12. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.






13. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.






14. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






15. The organizational form of a literary work.






16. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.






17. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.






18. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.






19. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.






20. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.






21. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.






22. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.






23. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.






24. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.






25. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.






26. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.






27. The emotion or feeling a word creates.






28. A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn - when he must part from his lover.






29. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.






30. The selection of words in a literary work.






31. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.






32. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.






33. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.






34. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.






35. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.






36. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.






37. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.






38. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.






39. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.






40. The conversation of characters in a literary work.






41. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.






42. Refers to a writers use of language - including the use of literary techniques - word choice - and sentence structure - that sets one writer apart from another.






43. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.






44. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.






45. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.






46. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.






47. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.






48. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.






49. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.






50. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.